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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/ida: Document locking requirements a bit better v2
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:22:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161027072216.20411-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> (raw)

I wanted to wrap a bunch of ida_simple_get calls into their own
locking, until I dug around and read the original commit message.
Stuff like this should imo be added to the kernel doc, let's do that.

v2: Improve the kerneldoc per Tejun's review.

Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
---
 lib/idr.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c
index 6098336df267..52d2979a05e8 100644
--- a/lib/idr.c
+++ b/lib/idr.c
@@ -927,6 +927,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_pre_get);
  * and go back to the ida_pre_get() call.  If the ida is full, it will
  * return %-ENOSPC.
  *
+ * Note that callers must ensure that concurrent access to @ida is not possible.
+ * See ida_simple_get() for a varaint which takes care of locking.
+ *
  * @p_id returns a value in the range @starting_id ... %0x7fffffff.
  */
 int ida_get_new_above(struct ida *ida, int starting_id, int *p_id)
@@ -1073,6 +1076,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_destroy);
  * Allocates an id in the range start <= id < end, or returns -ENOSPC.
  * On memory allocation failure, returns -ENOMEM.
  *
+ * Compared to ida_get_new_above() this function does its own locking, and
+ * should be used unless there are special requirements.
+ *
  * Use ida_simple_remove() to get rid of an id.
  */
 int ida_simple_get(struct ida *ida, unsigned int start, unsigned int end,
@@ -1119,6 +1125,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_simple_get);
  * ida_simple_remove - remove an allocated id.
  * @ida: the (initialized) ida.
  * @id: the id returned by ida_simple_get.
+ *
+ * Use to release an id allocated with ida_simple_get().
+ *
+ * Compared to ida_remove() this function does its own locking, and should be
+ * used unless there are special requirements.
  */
 void ida_simple_remove(struct ida *ida, unsigned int id)
 {
-- 
2.10.1

             reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27  7:22 Daniel Vetter [this message]
2016-10-27 14:21 ` Tejun Heo

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